Maia Rizzi: Increasing Joy

7:33 PM,
Jan. 28, 2014

Written by

Maia Rizzi
Maia@BellaMagazine.com

Joy - a quality of feeling happiness, an inner aliveness that makes us smile with lifegiving enthusiasm. Joy does not necessitate enormous riches nor perfect conditions. What it does, however, require is an appreciation, quite often for the things we usually take for granted.

THE BEGINNINGS OF DISSATISFACTION:

We sometimes tend to fantasize about what our ideal life or relationships might look like. But so often, it is our inner adolescent selves who have dreamt up these images as compensation for what remain to be our unmet goals or challenging circumstances. ...